Raymond Juzaitis  is a nuclear engineer with more than forty years of experience and he has worked in a number of areas including nuclear weapons management, nuclear non-proliferation, Intelligence, counter terrorism, homeland security, and related R&D programs at the Department of Energy National Laboratories. His early focus in computational physics paved the way for a broad-based technical career that included nuclear weapons design, development, testing, and evaluation.

Bio – Dr. Juzaitis grew up outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He received his BSE in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and then earned his master’s and PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Virginia.  Ray’s early career focused on computational physics broadly in the areas of nuclear weapons design, testing and development.  During his career he worked on a number of US government programs of the Pentagon as well as the defense program of the DOE. In the 1990s he was the leader of X-Division at Los Alamos National Lab, which is the weapons design division.  There he was responsible for the transition from a testing base culture to a more simulation base culture, to a science-based stockpile stewardship culture.  Ray served as a senior member of both the US nuclear weapons physics laboratories having also served at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as the associate director for non-proliferation, homeland and international security.  Following his retirement from the University of California, he served as a professor and department head of the new engineering department at Texas A&M.  After that he was the president and CEO of National Securities Technology in Las Vegas, Nevada, which was the M&O contractor for the Nevada National Nuclear Security Site which used to be known as the Nevada Test Site. Since then he has continued his research in areas involving technology and policy for non-proliferation, nuclear weapons, and related national security interests.